The unpublished travel accounts of Crown Prince Friedrich Christian (1722-63) of Saxony/Poland, a disabled teenager touring Italy in 1738-40 as 'Comte de Lusace', and related documentation and research by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

The Cure

The prince’s medical history survives and contains medical opinions solicited from specialists near and far as early as 1727, when he was aged five. The accompanying pages present medical opinions from Naples and London in 1738 and 1739.